Cabinet and means for storing, classifying, and indexing photographs, cards, or the like.



No. 761,659. PATENTED JUNE 7, 1904. J. G. CLARKE.

CABINET AND MEANS FOR STORING, OLASSIFYING, AND INDEXING PHOTOGRAPHS, CARDS, OR THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 30. 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented June '7, 1904.

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JOHN CAESAR CLARKE, OF RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.

CABINET AND MEANS FOR STORING, CLAS SIFYING, AN D INDEXING PHOTOGRAPHS, CARDS, OR THE LIKE. l

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 761,659, dated J 11 1 7, 1904.

Application filed April 30, 1903.

I land, have invented Improvements in Cabinets and in Means for Storing, Classifying, and Indexing Ph otographs, Cards, or the Like, of which the following is a specification.

This-invention relates to improved means for storing, classifying, and indexing photographs, cards, and the like, hereinafter referred to as cards.

According to this invention the edges of the cards are marked and inserted, with their marked edges to thefront, in a cabinet provided with suitably-arranged divisions and having a space for the insertion of a list of names or numbers, or both.. In line with each name or number of the list a line is drawnacross the division-pieces parallel with the edges of the shelf on which the cards rest.

The cards dealing with a person or' subject mentioned on the list are marked on one edge at such a distance from the lower edge as to be in line with the name of the same person or subject on the list. The edges of the cards relating to different persons or subjects are similarly marked, but at such a distance from the edge on which the cards rest as to be in line with the names of the corresponding persons or subjects on the list.

The accompanying drawings show, by way of example, a simple cabinet constructed in accordance with this invention and-suitable for the reception of a small collection of cabi- Figure 1 is a front elevation of the cabinet,

. and Fig. 2 is a sectional plan of the same on the line A. B of Fig. 1.

Referring now to Figs. 1 and 2, the cabinet A is rectangular and divided by partitions B into compartments 1, 2, 3,4, and 5,-each capable of receiving a number of cards. On the left-hand side of the cabinet is a compartment D, which serves to receive a sliding curtain, roller-blind, or the like E, that can be drawn across the front of the cabinet, in the arrangement now being described, when not in use. When a pliable curtain or runningsheet E is employed, it is supported by rings Serial No. 154,950. (No model.)

E, that slide along a wire F, which extends across the front of the cabinet, and has one of its ends curved inwardly and secured in a block D in the compartment D, Fig.2. The compartment D is partly closed by a partition R, the front of which forms a space for an index G. This indexis divided into spaces by horizontal lines that are continued across the edges of the partitions B. The divisions are preferably numbered as shown. The cards to be indexed are first inserted into the compartment 5. The outer wall B of this compartment is also marked off into divisions. Carried by a vertical guide-rod I-I, so as to extend across the compartment 5 and slidable and rotatable thereon, is an indicator-bar J.

The upper edge of this bar J may be brought level with any one of the division-lines on the net so as to indicate that it is placed therein in such wise that the classification-mark corresponds to the name-index on the cabinet. It will thus be understood that after the cards have been marked so as to indicate the lower corner the bar J is moved'upward to the line under the figure representing the subject of the card, and a line is then marked on the edge of the card. If cards marked as above described are now placed in the compartments 1,to 4 of the cabinet, care being taken that the cards are placed so that they all rest with their lower and marked edges at the bottom, it is obvious that cards marked to correspond with any one of the lines may be found at a glance and instantly taken out. It is evident that the cabinet may be enlarged so as to take documents of any size.

In the case of single sheets of paper, such as small tracings or other papers too thin to have one of their edges marked, such papers may be placed within portfolios or book-backs of usual construction, provided that these are sufiiciently wide at the backto allow a mark thereon to be readily visible.

The marking of the edges of portfolios may be efi'ected in any convenient manner, as by the means already described with respect to cards. The compartment 5 of the cabinet A, in which the cards are first placed to be marked, may, for instance, be made separate from the body of the cabinet.

WVhat I claim is 1. Means for storing, cataloguing and indexing cards comprising a cabinet, vertical partitions therein dividing said cabinet into compartments, space for an index, said space being divided by horizontal lines which also extend across the fronts of the partitions and means for marking the edges of the cards to be indexed, substantially as described.

2. Card storing, cataloguing and indexing means comprising a rectangular cabinet, that is divided vertically by partitions into compartments, means for closing said cabinet, a compartment for holding said closing means, said compartment being partly closed by a partition, which forms a space for an index and means for marking the cards to be placed in said cabinet, substantially as described.

3. Card storing, cataloguing and indexing means comprising a cabinet, partitions therein dividing said cabinet into compartments, a space for an index, and means for marking the edges of the cards to be indexed, said means for marking the edges of the cards to v be indexed, said means comprising a vertical rod fixed to said cabinet and a marker-bar movable up or down said rod in line with one of the division-lines on said index-space, substantially as described.

Signed at 26 North John street, Liverpool,

England, this 15th day of April, 1903.

JOHN CAESAR CLARKE.

Vitnesses:

STANLEY STROUD, F. M. (J. SCOTT. 

